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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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